Private George Auguste Collier

Army Number: 266059 (formerly 3565)

Battalion: 1/7th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

British 15 Star, British War and Victory Medal

Son of Adolphe Auguste and Emily Collier, of 138, Radcliffe Road, West Bridgford, Nottinghamshire. He was a lace designer prior to enlisting at Nottingham. He went to France on 28th June 1915 and was killed in action, on 1st July 1916, aged 21, in the attack on the German positions at Gommecourt, France, on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.

Commemorated : Thiepval Memorial, France. Pier and Face 10 C 10 D and 11 A.

Private George Auguste Collier is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
St. Giles Church War Memorial, West Bridgford, Nottinghamshire.
West Bridgford War Memorial, West Bridgford, Nottinghamshire.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.